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From Lauraibm
Full article: Energy Insights: Top 10 Predictions for the Energy Industry in 2007
- Focus on climate change will spawn investment in energy and information technologies
- Venture capital investment in energy sector will continue to expand
- Geological, technical, and economic factors will drive innovation in reserves management
- Change to daylight savings time in the U.S. will disrupt business as usual
- Aging workforce will continue to be a major challenge for energy industry US
- Aging assets and associated reliability concerns will drive intelligent grid technology investments
- Sensing technologies will drive a shift to real-time sense-and-respond paradigm
- Energy trading focus will shift to intra-day visibility, liquidity, and market behavior
- Web self-service and on-line communication for utility customers will increase
- Growth in IT spending for oil and gas companies will exceed that for utilities